A comprehensive guide for developing speech sounds in children with apraxia and other severe expressive speech disorders. Teach children to become intelligible through seven practical stages of therapy (see below). Learn how to help them produce better sounds, syllables, words, phrases, and connected speech. In this 164-page book and 4-hour audio CD, Pam Marshalla integrates her insights on oral-motor, articulation, phonology, and infant vocal development into a comprehensive developmental plan. This treatment approach is applicable for children of all ages who display apraxia, dysarthria, or severe phonological disorders. Read the book, listen to the seminar, or do both.
The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development: - Preparing - getting the voice ready for speech.
- Speechifying - making utterances sound speech-like.
- Honing - zeroing-in on consonants differentiated by place.
- Oscillating - incorporating reciprocating oral movements.
- Solidifying - establishing basic syllable constructions.
- Advancing - leaping beyond simple syllable constructions.
- Finishing - adding clusters and stridency at all levels.